The Secret People of the Palaces: The Royal Household from the Plantagenets to Queen Victoria
by:
Joan Glasheen (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780713483932 (0713483938)
Publish date: June 30th 2003
Publisher: Batsford
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Supposedly a look at the servants closest to the British monarchs. This should be fascinating! And yet, it took me five months to force myself through it. The writing is alternately hardly-intelligible lists and falsely cozy chattiness. Glasheen writes terrible, gossipy summations of each monarc...
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